The New Testament Church: The Council's Mission

If we scrub the memory of our past, we don’t learn from our past. The church in Antioch recognized that the Pharisees were nostalgic for the past by attempting to force the old wine of Jewish customs, particularly circumcision, into the new wineskins of new Gentile believers, but they also knew the mission to the Jews would fail if certain acts were permitted. In what ways is religion competing for your devotion to Jesus, and, is there something that you should abstain from for the good of the mission?